Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to Use

The original volume in folder 3 is closed due to fragility. Researchers may use the microfilm copy or the digital facsimile of the volume that is available online.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Manigault Family Papers #484, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy available.

• Reel 1: Series 1
• Reel 2: Series 2.3

Series 1-2.2 are available from University Publications of America as part of the Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J .

Alternate Form of Material

Digitized version of 1833-1876 journal available (see below).

Acquisitions Information

Purchased in 1940 and 1946; Louis Manigault album lent for filming by Mrs. G. Manigault Jenkins in 1947.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Argyle Island (Ga.)--Social life and customs.
• Autobiographies--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Berkeley District (S.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Charleston (S.C.)--Social life and customs.
• College of Charleston--Students--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Surgeons.
• Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, 4th.
• Diaries.
• East Hermitage Plantation (Ga.)
• Families--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Gowrie Plantation (Argyle Island, Ga.)
• Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
• Manigault family.
• Manigault, Charles Izard, 1795-1874.
• Manigault, Gabriel E. (Gabriel Edward), 1833-1899.
• Manigault, Louis, 1828-1899.
• Medical College of the State of South Carolina--Students--History--19th century.
• Medical education--History--19th century.
• Plantation owners--Georgia.
• Plantation owners--South Carolina.
• Plantations--Georgia.
• Plantations--South Carolina.
• Rice--Planting--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Silk Hope Plantation (Berkeley District, S.C.)
• Slavery--Georgia.
• Slavery--South Carolina.
• Slaves--Photographs.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.

• Manigault family papers at the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University; the South Carolina State Archives; and the South Carolina Historical Society.

The Manigault family of South Carolina and Georgia was large and powerful. Materials in this collection relate chiefly to the following individuals.

Charles Manigault (1795-1874) was born in Charleston, S.C., and spent his early life in New York and Philadelphia. He was at the University of Pennsylvania in 1814 when, as a member of the militia, he was called out to defend the city from the British. Charles became a merchant and traveled widely, visiting Asia, Australia, and South America. In 1823, he returned to South Carolina and acquired the Silk Hope plantation at the head of the Cooper River in the Berkeley District of South Carolina. In 1833, he bought rice lands on Argyle Island in the Savannah River, several miles upstream from the port of Savannah. The island property included two adjoining plantations Gowrie and East Hermitage. Charles also owned the Camp Plantation, which was inland on the river.

Charles's son Gabriel Edward Manigault (1833-1899), was educated as a physician and zoologist, studying at the College of Charleston and the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, from which he was graduated in 1854. He also studied in Europe. Gabriel never practiced medicine. Instead, while maintaining his planter status, he became, in 1873, the curator of the Museum of Natural History at the College of Charleston and was also a lecturer at the college and president of the Carolina Art Association. During the Civil War, he served as private and adjutant in the 4th South Carolina Cavalry Regiment.

Louis Manigault, another son of Charles, was born around 1829, and, after schooling and traveling, managed properties for his father. During the Civil War, he moved from Charleston to Macon and Augusta, Georgia, from which he made annual visits to the Savannah River plantations. He also served as secretary to Joseph Jones (1833-1896), Confederate army surgeon and professor at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.

The Manigault family collection is chiefly plantation records of the Silk Hope Plantation, Berkeley District, S.C., and the Gowrie Plantation and East Hermitage Plantation, Argyle Island, Ga. Plantation records contain information on slaves (including a photograph of a runaway slave), rice growing, market conditions, the weather, and other topics. Also included are papers of Charles Manigault, among them a will and essays on slavery and other topics, and a manuscript autobiography of Gabriel Edward Manigualt, detailing his studies in medical schools in Europe and at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, his Confederate army career with the 4th South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, and other matters. There is also a microfilmed album of Louis Manigault, containing letters, bits of a Civil War diary, wartime clippings, and other papers, 1861-1868, related to his service as secretary to Confederate army surgeon Joseph Jones.

• Reel 2